Recaps

Ye Yan cultivated his Azure Ice Flame and survived a Black Fire Sect assassination attempt, drawing the Ye Family and Pill Tower into the conflict. Disguised as Han Li in Sacred Pill City, he began learning alchemy from Xuan Yi and won Earth Core Fire at auction, then turned his attention to its companion Earth Core Fire Ganoderma.

• Ye Yan drew the Husband Aura trait, broke through to Dou Zhe, and revealed his Azure Ice Flame to Ye Zhong, who urged him to keep its true nature secret.
• Ye Yan used the Sun Fire Ancient Altar and the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art to cultivate a Life-Bound Cauldron, form an Azure Ice Flame Child Fire, and advance his cultivation.
• Zhao Hei ambushed Ye Yan, but the Azure Ice Flame weakened him, the Ye Family elders fought back, and Ye Zhong killed him with a dark-blue flame.
• With rumors spreading about the Ye Family’s Heavenly Flame, Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng traveled to Sacred Pill City, where Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi questioned them about it.
• Xuan Yi examined Ye Yan, gave him a Thousand Illusion Bead, and began teaching him alchemy while withholding formal discipleship.
• Disguised as Han Li, Ye Yan clashed with Bai Shan and the Bai Clan at the Pill Tower, then continued refining pills and reached Three-Star Dou Zhe.
• Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng attended the Alchemist Trade Fair, where Ye Yan bought the Blazing Flame Force jade slip before joining the auction.
• Ye Yan won the Earth Core Fire by bidding two Qi Cultivation Pills and told Ye Jingheng to focus on obtaining the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma.

Ye Yan broke through to Dou Shi, became Xuan Yi’s disciple, and traveled toward the Black Corner Region with Ye Lin. After destroying the Blood Sect and drawing powerful factions to Black Seal City, Ye Yan positioned himself to gain Yuan Yi’s submission through the auction.

• Ye Yan absorbed the Earth Core Fire, cultivated under Xuan Yi, and broke through to Dou Shi as his Life Fire Seed evolved into the Heaven Burning Flame.
• Ye Yan left the Pill Tower with Ye Lin, carrying protective scrolls from Ye Jingheng and Xuan Yi while Black Nether searched for him.
• Ye Yan and Ye Lin traveled under assumed names through End of the World City and into the Black Corner Region, where Ye Yan absorbed a fragment of the Azure Ice Flame’s origin.
• Ye Lin overwhelmed the Blood Sect pursuers, and Ye Yan killed the remaining attackers, including Yin Yu and Fan Ling, while Ye Lin burned Fan Lao to ash.
• Ye Yan and Ye Lin looted the Blood Sect’s resources and reached Black Seal City, where Ye Yan explained that he sought Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and Yao Chen’s pill formulas.
• Ye Yan offered Fan Lao’s spear, cultivation technique, an Imperial Extreme Pill, and Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills for auction, attracting Black Seal City’s faction leaders.
• Yuan Yi brought Su Mei, Old Man Yin Gu, Tie Wu, and the Tomb Master to meet Ye Yan and Ye Lin, then returned and offered the Eight Fan Gate and Black Seal Auction House’s submission to Lin Yan.

Ye Yan secured allies and clues to a Heavenly Flame, then traveled through the Jia Ma Empire while Ye Lin prepared for a breakthrough. After helping Xiao Yi Xian and intervening in Xiao Xun’er’s courtyard, Ye Yan set his sights on the Xiao Clan’s market district.

• Ye Yan secured Yuan Yi’s help in investigating Han Feng and traded Fan Lao’s technique and Blood Fiend Treasure Spear for Old Man Yin Gu’s information about the Ghostly Cold Bone Land.
• Ye Yan and Ye Lin left the Black Corner Region for the Jia Ma Empire, where Ye Yan obtained Hai Bodong’s map fragment and hired mercenary groups to search the Tagor Desert for a Heavenly Flame.
• Ye Lin gave Ye Yan the Sand Mandala, then entered seclusion in a hidden valley while Ye Yan cultivated and prepared to visit Doctor Yun.
• Ye Yan saved Xiao Yi Xian from Mu Li, killed Mu Li and his guards, and then attacked the Wolf Head Mercenary Group after it sought revenge.
• Ye Yan recovered the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and Purple Cloud Wings from a hidden cave, gave the scripture to Xiao Yi Xian, and learned she and Doctor Yun suspected she had the Woe Poison Body.
• Ye Yan secretly gave Xiao Xun’er a Green Wood Pulse-Nurturing Pill, whose Wood Qi was absorbed by her Golden Emperor Heaven Burning Flame and eased her exhaustion.
• Ye Yan decided to wait until he obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame before awakening Yao Chen, commissioned a black ring, and headed toward the Xiao Clan’s market district.

Ye Yan obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame and helped Queen Medusa undergo her evolution, leaving with her newly born Seven-Colored Little Snake form. He then prepared to absorb the flame himself, intent on strengthening his family against the Soul Hall.

• Ye Yan met Xiao Xun'er, traded pills for the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and a Tier 7 beast core, and helped Xiao Yi Xian prepare to control her Woe Poison Body.
• The Soul Hall attacked the Ye Family, but Ye Zhong’s scroll and Tian Leizi’s arrival drove off Old Man Mu Gu, while Ye Yan registered with Jia Nan Academy and later reunited with Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin broke through to Dou Zong, and he and Ye Yan traveled to the Tagor Desert in pursuit of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Ye Yan and Ye Lin entered the magma cavern, where Ye Yan followed the Heaven Burning Flame to the Green Lotus Core Flame and took its lotus pedestal and seeds.
• Queen Medusa agreed to cooperate with Ye Yan and underwent evolution using the Green Lotus Core Flame, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and pills he provided.
• Ye Yan strengthened the flames to help awaken Queen Medusa’s bloodline, and she emerged in human form before transforming into a Seven-Colored Little Snake.
• Ye Yan left the Snake-People Tribe with Ye Lin and the little snake, then prepared to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame in a mountain cave.